Health Care Service Corp., the parent company of BCBS Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, is expanding Medicare plans to 99 additional counties next year, pending regulatory approvals.
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The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority has given UnitedHealth a provisional OK in response to the company's proposed acquisition of the health technology firm EMIS Group.
HHS is urging states to do more to improve Medicaid call center wait times, rates of procedural terminations and application processing times.
Optum's proposed $3.29 billion acquisition of home health provider Amedisys is facing scrutiny from the Justice Department, according to an Aug. 10 regulatory filing.
Officials in three states are pushing back on payers looking to raise members' premiums in 2024.
UnitedHealth Group has the potential to reach a market value of $1 trillion by 2030, according to an Aug. 10 financial report from the Motley Fool.
Elevance Health named a new CFO and published new research in the first weeks of August.
Medical cost ratios across six major payers rose an average of just under 1 percent year over year, according to companies' second-quarter earnings reports.
Half of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries say they don't fully understand their plan, a survey from Retirement Living published Aug. 9 found.
From a leadership reshuffle to the launch of a nurse practitioner degree program, here are nine updates from Optum that Becker's reported since July 11: